Button-fastener



PATENTED FEB. l, 1901i.

G. KREMENTZ. www PASTENER.

PLGTIGN LED SEPT. 2B, 1903.

Patented February 16, 1904.

EUTTONIFSTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. '2752,293, dated Febriiary 16, 1904.

Application and september 28,1903. swarm. 174.869. (No model.)

To mi?, whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, (monos 'Knrmss'rn a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newark, in the county of Essex and State o' New Jersey, have invented certain new and l j useful .improvements in Button-Fasteners, or'

l through the fabric.

which the following is a speciication. teken in `connection with the accompanying drawings,

which form a part of the same.

This invention relates to hutton-fasteners such as are adapted to he connected with the shank ot a button and haring a piercing end to pass tl'ironglr thefahric and serving to securely fasten the hutten thereto, while allow ingv for the ready .removal of the same.

In the accompanying` drawings, in which the i same reference-numerals refer to similar parts et shows a modified construction of fastener as -t'orm a piercing end.

applied to e fabric.

ln the embodiment of the invention shown in the drawings the fastener is shown as comprising the arms 3, ot' Wire, which engage the shank 2 olf the hutten l. rfhese arms ere secured together at their forward portions to The forward portions ot' the arms may be detachahy connected by the enlarged piercing-head t, which is indicated as formed with a threaded hole 7, so to screw upon the thread ed ends 3.9 ot the e" This head is indicated as having the sharp point 5 and is preferably provided with the hole 6, by which it may he rotated to detach it from the arms. 1The arms, which are pret'K1 erahly formed of resilient materiel, are indicated as provided with the bends 8, by which a suitable Shank-retainng notch l0 is 'formed intermediate the ends of the fastener and proff erably adjacent its @entrai portion. The rear end of the fastener is preferably hentso as to form the forwardly-tapering shank-recoit ing loop 9, connecting with the notch 20,'

The button-shank can he forced from one to the other, although the arms ere so close f gether as to prevent-the accidental passage of the shank from the notch to the loop. The forward ends of the arms in front of the retaining-notch are preferably close together, so as to exclude the hutten-shank, and, if desired. the arms may he formed with suitable means topositix'ely"pre\'ent the button-shank from being forced hetween the arms infront of the retaining-notch. stop may ybe formed on one of the arms wht a suitable recess form s prevent the passage or 'the hutten-shank betweenthe arms. lniligs.. 2 and thestops 1l are indicatedes formed integral with the larms 3 adjacent he front of the rctainingnotch, these stops cooperating, with suitable recesses l2 in the arms, so as to exclude the button-shank.

it is not necessary to forni bonds n-hoth of the arms of the fastener. As indicated in Fig. e, one or` these. arms may he formed straight, while the other arm may be formed with suitable bends to constitute the shank-retainv ing notch near the middle of thc' fastener. The bend 14 at the rear of this notch is indicated as curved, so to allow the ready passage of the shank 2 of the button l when it is forced in that direction, while the bend or stop 1i at thc front side ot' the notch is given the sharp angular contour indicated, so as to cioselj,r1 coirperate with the onpo'site'arm of the fastener and to electually exclude the button,- 'shanlry The forward portions of the arms in front of the notch vare preferably close together in this instance,.and, it' desired, they may he secured permanently together .by solder or otherwise at any 'point between the notch and the piercing end. -This would entirely prevent the button-shank from getting between the front portions of the arms; but it lessens the resilient action. of the fastener to :some extent. The `front ends ofthe arms may he oned in any way to form a piercing end, and an enlarged piercing-head, such as 16,. may ,he secured upon them in any desired way, this heed being indicated in Fig. as permanently secured to the front of the fastener-arms by lee-ing forced down upon them. The rearof .tgetener is indicated m. 1

peringreceiving-loop 15, communicating with the notch 18.

In using this fastener the fastener' after the shank of the button has been inserted between the arms may be readily applied to fabric by insertionl through a bnttonhole of the ordi nary kind and is especially applicable for use with stud-buttons for shirts and other garments. Fig. 1 indicates the fastener as thrust through the buttonhole of the fabric 13. The front end of rthe fastener is then grasped and pulled through, so that the button-shank engages the buttonhole, and thereupon the fas tener is forced backward through the buttonshank until the shank engages the retaining notch and the fastener assumes a transverse posit-ion, holding the button to the fabric, as indicated in Fig. 4. rllhe fastener and button maybe readily removed from the fabric in an obvious manner.

)It is desirable that fasteners of this class be certain in their operation and so constructed that they cannot be operated wrongly under `v any conditions, and for this reason it is desirable that the button-shank be prevented from g assing between the fastener-arms in front of thev retaining-notch, since iftliis should happen in attempting to remove the fastener undesirable results would follow and the fastener and garmentmight become injured. The fastener-arms are therefore preferably 1given such a configuration that the button-shank may readily pass from the receivingdoop at the rearof the fastr'nier to the retaining-notch near the center of the saine, but is prevented from moving farther forward between the fastenercure by Letters Patent, is set forth in the appended claims.

1. In button-fasteners, a button having a shank and a fastener having arms of resilient materia-l detachably secured to said shank, there beingan enlarged piercing-head formed with a hole, screwedl upon the front ends of said arms, said arms formingl a shank-retaining notch adjacent the middle of the fastener anda forwardly-tapering,r shankreceiving loop at the rear of the fastener, there being' stops on said arms adjacent the front of said notch said stops coiperating with recesses formed in said arms to 'prevent the passage of `said shank between said arms ahead of said notch.

2. In button-fasteners, a button having a shank and a fastener having` arms of resilient material detachably secured to said shank, said arms forming a shank-retaining' notch adjaiv cent the middle of said fastener and being detachably connected at their forward endsby an venlarged piercing-head.

3. In button-fasteners, abutton having a shank and a fastener having resilientarms detachably connected with said shank and means to detachabl y connect the forward ends of said 5. In'hutton-fasteners, a fastener 'having MM.- a. 

